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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Loving is half of believing.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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